From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 8:12:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A3A14BF1 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 08:12:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA32822 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:12:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:12:41 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how do i increase the maximum number of open files systemwide. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > No need for kernel recompilation: > /sbin/sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=16000 > Ja - thanks to all; I had thought we had to recompile in BSDI but the same thing works there. I forgot what I had done. The mind is a terrible thing to lose :) Doug D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message